New Music Kingston is thrilled to be presenting the Kingston premiere of Breakthrough Artist of the Year (2012 Opus Awards), Vincent Lauzer, virtuoso recorder player from Montréal. A prize winner many times over, he was most recently awarded the Prix Guy-Soucie for best performance of a Québec work by Patrick Mathieu at the Prix d’Europe 2013… 2012, First Prize during the Stepping Stone of the Canada Music Competition and the Career Development Award from the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto … 2010, 1st prize in the first Mathieu-Duguay Early Music Competition held at the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival… 1st Prize and the Audience Appreciation Prize in the 3rd Montreal International Recorder Competition … best Canadian Recorder Player Prize … Montreal Baroque Prize for Audaciousness and Musicalityin theGalaxie-CBC Rising Stars Competitionduring theMontreal Baroque Festival in 2007. Vincent has performed with the series Clavecin en concert and with the ensembles Les Idées Heureuses, Arion, and La Bande Montréal Baroque. He is also a founding member of the ensemble Recordare, which was one of the five finalists in the Early Music America/Naxos Recording Competition. He has toured and recorded extensively with the recorder quintet Flûte Alors! His Kingston program will include performances on recorders of all sizes with the addition of electroacoustic material… you will be amazed! Vincent will also be presenting a workshop/demonstration on Saturday morning, November 29… more information to follow.

From 1 to 2 November 2014, the Birmingham International Recorder Festival takes place. Among the highlights of the festival can be found on the 2nd November the event ‘Performing with Electronics’ taster session with Chris Orton, who will present his interpretations of compositions für recorder and electronics in an additional concert with this program:

On 29th September 2013 , the winners of the year’s prizes of GWK (Society for the Advancement of the Westphalian Cultural Work Association) were awarded and honored . The musical arrangement of the festive matinee, which was presented in the KulturSchmiede Arnsberg at the ideal venue, was in the hands of this year’s winners for music, Max Volbers (recorder) and Nikola Komatina (accordion). Direct opening shone Max Volbers virtuosity and confidently with the interpretation of “commentari III” for recorder and quadraphonic live electronics , which I had composed in 2000 for Dorothee Oberlinger. Max Volbers studies recorde at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Another highlight was the arranging of the awardees for their own occupation version of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonata for flute and bc G minor, BWV 1020. The GWK award to the musicians , the writer Lars Reyer and visual artists Bettina Marx , Katja Kottmann and Clemens Botho Goldbach was brought to a close with a further special contribution from Nikola Komatina, who was born in 1988 in Serbia and after his studies at the Conservatory in Vienna now stands at the Detmold Music Academy just before the completion of his accordion studies , brought the ceremony with the interpretation of the Roma song “Djurdjevdan” to a moving finale. With all the passion in his voice and playful virtuosity on the accordion Nikola Komatina presented a perfect example of how music directly and naturally cross borders, opening doors and gates. The exhibitions of art winners are open at the Kunstverein Arnsberg and in the Kloster Wedinghausen until 10th November.